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E3 - First Day Shows Multitude Of New Games

Posted by simoniker on from the system-overload dept.

Thanks to Eurogamer for its in-depth E3 coverage, as well as GameDaily's detailed write-ups and Ferrago's similarly wide-ranging coverage, as they add to previously-mentioned gaming websites covering the E3 Expo in Los Angeles. Highlights of the first day include hands-on impressions of Conker: Live and Reloaded for Xbox, a seriously in-depth Half-Life 2 interview, some first impressions of Myst IV, confirmation that Sega's signing of The Matrix Online was their 'big announcement', though Phantasy Star Universe was also announced, the list of songs for Donkey Konga, and a hands-on look at Final Fantasy XII. What other software are you most impressed by?

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  1. Re:The gaming industry needs to grow up by fireduck · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the movie industry, the pattern these days seems to be for the big "blockbuster" products to be delivered on-time.

    Oh, I don't know. doing a quick google "delayed movie releases" search turns up that the release of Blade was delayed. Against the Ropes (that Meg Ryan movie) was delayed quite a while before it was released. Apparently the new Miyazaki film is going to be delayed. Sky Captain is being delayed. And here's a whole list of films from 1999 that had their release schedules changed (with a number of them including "behind schedule" in the reason).

    So, its a bit unfair to criticize the game industry for being amateurish, while denying it happens in the movie industry. Perhaps all of the Lord of the Rings films were released on schedule, but a quick search for a recent semi-blockbuster, Kill Bill 2, shows that it was initially scheduled to be released in February and was pushed back to April.